Licensed joker: 'Danger is my middle name'

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A man in western Sweden managed to dupe authorities into using his painted self-portrait for his driving licence picture, a stunt he believes blurs the line between reality and fantasy.

Fredrik Säker, a technical artist from Gothenburg, is no stranger to danger. Just check his driving licence.

"Danger is my middle name, I never had one before, so I legally changed it," he told The Local with a laugh.

So perhaps it comes as no surprise that Fredrik Danger Säker (whose last name means 'safe' in English), recently tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen).

"When my previous licence was set to expire, I thought 'This is a chance to prove myself as a painter'," Säker explained.

The artist, who admits to a lifetime interest in technical painting, took a deliberately bad photo of himself and set about copying it with his paintbrush.